The first table below looks at the demand for Selenium skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Selenium over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the Hertfordshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Selenium
Rank 55 66 58
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing Selenium 9 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.382% 0.921% 0.703%
As % of the Development Applications category 8.411% 9.474% 4.800%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
Average daily rate £346 £413 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.06% +106.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £323 £313 £275
% change year-on-year
+3.20% +13.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £23.25
All Development Applications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
107 95 125
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 16.44% 9.724% 14.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 40 29
Average daily rate £348 £388 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.32% +19.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £280 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £475 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 38
Average hourly rate £36.75 £37.50 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% +1.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £34.25 £35.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £38.40 £39.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
Selenium
East of England

Selenium
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Selenium across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Hertfordshire Selenium Jobs Demand Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Selenium across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Selenium Daily Rate Trend

Selenium
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Selenium across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Selenium Daily Rate Histogram

Selenium
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Selenium within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford - 1 £600 -
Selenium
East of England

Selenium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Selenium also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Selenium.

1 12 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 11 (55.00%) BDD
3 10 (50.00%) Java
3 10 (50.00%) Scrum
3 10 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 9 (45.00%) SOAP
4 9 (45.00%) Web Services
4 9 (45.00%) JBehave
5 8 (40.00%) SQL
5 8 (40.00%) ISEB
5 8 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (40.00%) Automated Testing
6 7 (35.00%) Finance
6 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (35.00%) JIRA
6 7 (35.00%) Integration Testing
6 7 (35.00%) Linux
6 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (35.00%) Confluence
6 7 (35.00%) Build Automation
7 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
8 5 (25.00%) Android
8 5 (25.00%) Capita
9 4 (20.00%) CSS
9 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (20.00%) Oracle
10 3 (15.00%) XML
10 3 (15.00%) C#
10 3 (15.00%) soapUI
11 2 (10.00%) Node.js

Selenium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Selenium also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Selenium. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (45.00%) SOAP
1 9 (45.00%) Web Services
2 4 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (15.00%) XML
3 3 (15.00%) soapUI
4 2 (10.00%) Node.js
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) Sass
4 2 (10.00%) Ajax
4 2 (10.00%) YUI
4 2 (10.00%) XHTML
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) XSLT
5 1 (5.000%) .NET
5 1 (5.000%) J2EE
5 1 (5.000%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (35.00%) Confluence
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.000%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 9 (45.00%) JBehave
3 7 (35.00%) JIRA
4 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (10.00%) MonkeyTalk
5 2 (10.00%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (5.000%) Ant
6 1 (5.000%) Eclipse
6 1 (5.000%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (5.000%) Subversion
6 1 (5.000%) Maven
6 1 (5.000%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Test Automation Consultant
1 5 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 5 (25.00%) Test Consultant
1 5 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.000%) UI Developer
5 1 (5.000%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.000%) UI Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) Android
3 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) BDD
2 10 (50.00%) Scrum
2 10 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 8 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (40.00%) Automated Testing
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (35.00%) Integration Testing
4 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (35.00%) Build Automation
5 4 (20.00%) E-Commerce
6 2 (10.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (10.00%) MVC
6 2 (10.00%) Web Usability
6 2 (10.00%) OO
6 2 (10.00%) ETL
7 1 (5.000%) SOA
7 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Test Management
7 1 (5.000%) V-Model
7 1 (5.000%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) XPath
4 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.000%) VB
5 1 (5.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.000%) SLA
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Capita
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Adobe
3 2 (10.00%) Atlassian